2 And I seal up these records, after I have
spoken a few words by way of exhortation unto you.3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye
shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that
ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men,
from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these
things, and ponder it in your hearts.4 And when ye shall receive these things, I
would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of
Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart,
with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto
you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may
know the truth of all things.(Moroni 10:2-5) However the original reading of the Book of
Mormon as found in both the Printer’s Manuscript and the 1830 Edition has: 4 And when ye shall receive these things, I
would exhort you that ye wo…

"Easter as now celebrated has come
into being as a compromise between pagan and apostate Christian views,
and obviously it does not pretend to be the anniversary of the actual
resurrection of Christ. Nonetheless the true saints gladly take it as
appropriate occasion on which to turn their attentions to the infinite
and eternal atonement of Christ as such was climaxed by his coming forth
as the firstfruits of them that slept" - Bruce R. McConkie; Mormon Doctrine; Article "Easter"

Yet D&C 84 says:

54 And your minds in times past have been darkened because of unbelief,
and because you have treated lightly the things you have received— 55 Which vanity and unbelief have brought the whole church under condemnation. 56 And this condemnation resteth upon the children of Zion, even all.
57 And they shall remain under this condemnation until they repent and
remember the new covenant, even the Book of Mormon and the former
commandmen…

The Passover Seder /ˈseɪdər/ (Hebrew: סֵדֶר
[ˈsedeʁ] 'order, arrangement'; Yiddish: סדר‎ seyder) is a Jewish ritual feast
that marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover.One of the rituals of the seder is that of
the account of the four types of sons.

The Four Sons The Passover Haggadah speaks of "four
sons"—one who is wise, one who is wicked, one who is simple, and one who
does not know to ask. Each of these sons phrases his question about the seder
in a different way. The Haggadah recommends answering each son according to his
question, using one of the three verses in the Torah that refer to this
exchange. The wise son asks "What are the
statutes, the testimonies, and the laws that God has commanded you to do?"
(Deut. 6:20) One explanation for why this very detailed-oriented question is
categorized as wise, is that the wise son is trying to learn how to carry out
the seder, rather than asking for someone else's understanding of its meaning.
H…

Book of Mormon critics have criticized the
fact that Nephi consecrated his brothers Joseph and Jacob as priests: And it came to pass that I Nephi, did
consecrate Jacob and Joseph, that they should be priests and teachers over the
land of my people.(2Nephi 5:26)For I, Jacob, and my brother Joseph had
been consecrated priests and teachers ofthis people, by the hand of Nephi.(Jacob 1:18) Jacob and Joseph were both sons of Lehi (1
Nephi 18:7; 2 Nephi 2:2) and as we all know, Lehi was a Josephite (1 Nephi
15:12, 19:24; 2 Nephi 3:2-5; Jacob 2:5; Alma 10:3, 26:36). Thus Jacob and
Joseph were both from the Tribe of Joseph and NOT from the Tribeof Levi. So how could Nephi claim that he and his
people “did observe to keep the judgments, and the statutes, and the
commandments of the Lord in all things according to the law of Moses” (2 Nephi
5:10) when in fact he was consecrating his own Josephite brothers who were not
even Levites, much less sons of Aharon to serve as priests? The truth is that ther…

In my previous blogs I have shown that
Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon through the gift of the
interpretation of languages, and that this involved Smith knowing the range of
meanings of the words and phrases of the original Hebrew, but not necessarily
knowing what was in the minds of the original authors.Thus it was very possible for Smith to
choose a word or phrase that was within the range of meaning of the original
words and phrases but which did not express the intended meaning of the
original author.
For this reason John Tvetness writes: Some passages of the Book of Mormon can be
better understood in Hebrew than in English because the Hebrew reflects
word-play or a range of meaning which gives more sense to the passage.(The Ensign; Oct. 1986 p.64) In a recent blog, I showed that when the
Book of Mormon speaks of the Torah (or its individual parts) as being “done
away” that the intended meaning of the original authors was that the Torah
would be “renewed” rather than “don…

In several passages the Book of Mormon
mentions that the Messiah “fulfilled” the law, for example when Yeshua
addresses the Nephites he says: 4 Behold, I say unto you that the law is
fulfilled that was given unto Moses.5 Behold, I am he that gave the law, and I
am he who covenanted with my people Israel; therefore, the law in me is
fulfilled, for I have come to fulfil the law; therefore it hath an end.6 Behold, I do not destroy the prophets,
for as many as have not been fulfilled in me, verily I say unto you, shall all
be fulfilled.(3Nephi 15:4-6 (7:5-7 RLDS)) In my last article I covered the phrase
“therefore it has an end’ showing that phrase does not refer to a “termination”
of the Torah, bit to the idea that the Messiah is the “goal” of the Torah.In this article I want to deal with the
concept that Messiah “fulfilled” the Torah. In trying to understand this passage,
everything hinges on the meaning of the words "destroy" and
"fulfill". What does Yeshua mean by &qu…